Explain any three problems faced by the Indian weavers in 1850s.

The problems faced by the Indian weavers were as given below:
(i) With the development of cotton industries in England, the Indian cotton weavers could not sell their textiles there due to import duties.
(ii) East India Company began to sell British goods in India. Cotton piece-goods were imported into India. By 1870 cotton piece-goods constituted over 50 per cent of Indian imports. The Indian markets were flooded with Manchester goods. Produced by machines at lower costs, the imported goods were very cheap and weavers could not compete with them.
(iii) Insufficient supply of raw cotton of good quality: During the American Civil War, Britain could not get cotton supplies from the US. Thus, raw cotton was exported from India to Britain. As a result of this, the Indian weavers could not get supplies and sometimes, they were forced to buy at high prices.
(iv) The weavers again faced a problem by the end of the nineteenth century when factories in India began production. The market was flooded with machine-goods and it became difficult for weavers to compete with them.